To Clone or Image HDD

Dilemma: Smaller company bought a copy of Autocad on Ebay. Since it was purchased by another entity and not my company, I can not transfer it to another more powerful Laptop. (legally apparently)

I have an excellent laptop that I am wanting to move it onto to utilize. Should I Clone my current laptop and install that HDD into my new one and run them completely partitioned ( separate O/S and all) or try to Image the programs that I want only and use two HDDs together?

I am frustrated as the current laptop has an older CPU and my reports are extremely large. (these being word doc reports and actually no A-Cad work in them).

What you were originally asking is 10 times the difficulty with absolutely no guarantee that it will even work.
The best advice anyone can give you, especially from a business perspective, is re-purchase your own LEGAL copy of the software.

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